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July 16, 1947: Zale vs Graziano II
In 1945 Rocky Graziano stood at the precipice of ruin. Just 26-years-old, with a record of 35-6-5, he had lost two matches in a row, two high profile defeats ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Catchers
On this day way back in 1922, the man they would come to call “The Bronx Bull” was born. Jake LaMotta would go on to not only become ...
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July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones
When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the key criteria is longevity. This has less to ...
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July 7, 1985: Chavez-Mayweather I
It’s 1985 and everyone south of the border already knows who the next great Mexican boxer will be. The only problem is pretty much no one north of ...
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July 6, 1979: Gonzalez vs Oguma IV
The career of Betulio Gonzalez, which should be enshrined in the Hall of Fame but for reasons unknown is not, featured numerous clashes with various champions, but was ...
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June 29, 1942: Charles vs Burley II
No one knowledgeable about the long history of prizefighting doubts the standing of Charley Burley. The man was so good even Sugar Ray Robinson avoided him. And no ...
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Fight City Legends: Little Chocolate
The question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the likely replies: Jack Johnson? Joe Gans? While incorrect, these ...
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June 22, 1938: Louis-Schmeling II
Former world champion Max Schmeling was a solid 10-to-1 underdog when he faced rising contender and awesome knockout artist Joe Louis in a major heavyweight showdown in June ...
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June 18, 1941: Louis vs Conn I
It is 1941 and while some say death and taxes are the only sure things in life, American sports fans know different. There exists a third certainty: Joe Louis ...
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June 12, 1989: Hearns vs Leonard II
Their first meeting in 1981, one of the biggest fights in boxing history, was called “The Showdown,” an appellation which made sense given that each held one of ...
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Fight City Legends: The Smoke City Wildcat
They called them the Roaring Twenties, that crazy decade following World War I when the economy boomed, “speakeasies” opened on every other corner, the “flappers” started showing a ...
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May 25, 1965: Ali vs Liston II
I wrote about this famous and most scandalous of duels for an earlier post on this site, our list of the most controversial fights in boxing history. I ...
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May 25, 1980: Cooney vs Young
“I’m going to win this fight, going to win it big. I’ve trained hard for this and I’ve got it all together. I hear this Cooney kid is ...
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Happy Birthday To Marvelous Marvin
It’s the birthday of “The Marvelous One,” an all-time great middleweight champion who, for close to a full decade, was part of any discussion about the best fighter ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Body Punchers
Body punchers don’t get enough love. Dramatic instances where a paralyzing left hook to the liver or a crushing right to the ribs produces a KO aside, much ...
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May 8, 1982: Mancini vs Frias
By this time all of America knew the Ray Mancini story; precious few knew the tale of Arturo Frias. While “Boom Boom” Mancini was something out of a ...
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May 5, 1973: Jofre vs Legra
Boxing comebacks are usually a bad idea. Boxing comebacks involving former world champions over the age of 35 are, George Foreman notwithstanding, almost always a terrible idea. But ...
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April 20, 1960: Fullmer vs Giardello
As most boxing fans know, they made a movie about wrongly imprisoned middleweight contender Rubin “Hurricane” Carter with Denzel Washington in the leading role. And while no doubt ...
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April 15, 1985: Hagler vs Hearns
Hagler vs Hearns. Next to The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, maybe the most famous boxing match in middleweight history. Billed as simply “The Fight,” what is there to ...
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April 11, 1981: Holmes vs Berbick
In 1981 few doubted that Larry Holmes was one of the best boxers in the world, but rarely had the holder of the most coveted prize in all ...
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March 22, 1967: Ali vs Folley
The first, prolific championship reign of Muhammad Ali, which saw him defend his title eight times in two years, had, regrettably, always been more about politics than sports. ...
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March 19, 1983: McCrory vs Jones I
In the late 70’s and early 80’s professional prizefighting was enjoying a serious resurgence with major stars such as Hearns, Hagler, Mancini, Duran, Arguello and Holmes inspiring keen ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Southpaws
According to the latest research, roughly ten percent of the human population is left-handed. This presents few problems for the other ninety percent, but in boxing, those problems ...
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March 10, 1986: Hagler vs Mugabi
Almost a full year had passed since “The Fight,” the huge event that was Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs Thomas “The Hit Man” Hearns for the undisputed middleweight title, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweights
At a very leisurely pace over the last couple of years, The Fight City has offered its own idiosyncratic rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of ...
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March 2, 1980: Kenty vs Espana
After decades of decline, Detroit, Michigan, attempted to reverse the years of stagnation and neglect and reassert itself in the late 70s as one of America’s great cities. A ...
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Fight Report: Gonzalez vs Yafai
The Event: The main event, or so we were told, for last night’s solid DAZN card from Texas was a showdown of welterweight contenders, Mikey Garcia and Jessie ...
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Feb. 15, 1982: Leonard vs Finch
It is 1982 and Sugar Ray Leonard is the king of not only the welterweight division, but of the entire sport of boxing. No other fighter is as ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Upsets
How does one measure an upset? Simple: by the number of chins on the floor at the end of the fight. And the power of the shockwaves felt ...
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Feb. 5, 1943: Robinson-LaMotta II
A rivalry is not a rivalry after just one fight. Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta had faced each other for the very first time just four months prior ...
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